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Since all the pre-science religions are played out, I non-ironically think this would make a good syncretic post-science religion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6fcK_fRYaI

It doesn't have to be true (whatever that means). As with any faith, the practice is the religion; the tenets are just slalom gates. As with everything else humans create -- languages, laws, morals -- truth is whatever we say it is. So let's call this true, and make a better world by practicing it.
 
Kepler said:
I'm surprised by this because I think of the Mormon Church as a country club like the Episcopalians. The high church of dollar cost averaging.

Those people trust doctors and despise snake handlers like Baptists and Pentacostals.
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This was inevitable. Mormons are taught that their leaders can be fallible, especially on secular matters. They used to be taught that polygamy was a sort of misguided earthly creation of Brigham Young. It's only in recent decades that the LDS church have formally acknowledged that Joseph Smith started the practice, but they are careful to heavily downplay that aspect of his life and teachings and still ascribe much of the expansion of the practice and subsequent controversy to Young.

Plus, Mormons have an automatic distrust for anything to do with the feds. So a bunch of them, especially rural ones, choosing to ignore the current president's call to get the vaccine is really not that surprising.
 
I love Western conservatives' hatred of the feds since the only reason Western states are viable is the federal government.

It's like if the Dutch hated levee engineering.
 
Per Evangelicals, empathy is a sin.

But even though Desiring God and more of their outlets started declaring it, this is something they've been thinking since time began.
 
Got a handwritten letter from the Witnesses today. I'm on their list because I tried to hook one of them up with a job at my then-employer years ago after he helped me change a blown out tire. They're a plucky bunch, I'll give them that, but definitely at or near the bottom of the list of faiths I'd remotely consider ever converting to. Given their proclivities about blood transfusions, I wonder what their stance on the COVID vaccine is. I bet I can guess.
 
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Of course it is. To have empathy would require too much learning and thinking on the part of the believer, and we all know that too much learning and thinking eventually leads to questions about dogma, doctrine, and eventually faith itself.
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This is what I grew up with. Poor and minorities were always "those people."

When I revealed myself to be one of "those people," the chorus of coded "fuck you" wouldn't stop until I distanced myself from it.
 
https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post...-work-because-the-u-s-is-under-gods-judgment/

Radical right-wing pastor Shane Vaughn used his livestream broadcast Monday night to falsely declare that COVID-19 vaccines are not working because, he claimed, the United States is under God’s judgment for tolerating reproductive freedom and LGBTQ rights.

“I’m going to tell you what God told me to tell you,” Vaughn said. “They’ve got variants coming that ain’t no vaccine going to work for. This nation is under the judgment of God. And I want to tell you something right now: They’re already admitting that the vaccine is alarmingly not working. Alarmingly! They’re alarmed at what they’re seeing. Do you know why? Because America, you’re making a huge mistake.”
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ge45R9qoW_Y
 
From Meghan Danzig:

.Hey I don't know who needs to hear this but the creators of Veggietales were given explicit instructions not to insinuate that vegetables could have a salvific relationship with Jesus Christ.

So whenever they mentioned salvation, they would look into the camera and say that YOU could have a relationship with Jesus. They never claimed it for themselves.


Which means that both Bob the tomato and Larry the cucumber are rotting in the compost heap of Hell.


I hope they're writing a silly song about that.
 
It now makes sense American Evangelicals would declare empathy a sin in conjunction with embracing end times theology.

"But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. [SUP]2 [/SUP]People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, [SUP]3 [/SUP]without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, [SUP]4 [/SUP]treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— [SUP]5 [/SUP]having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people." 2 Timothy 3:1-5

However, as noted, Patmos is home to a known hallucinogenic that's plentiful. Revelation was what John saw on one big ass acid trip.
 
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